Question

I have a method that hash input string to generate MD5 pass from it
can I test his input an output without debugging

private string getMD5hash(string input)
{
    //create a new instance of MD5 object
    MD5 md5Hasher = MD5.Create(); 
    //convert the input value to byte array
    byte[] data = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input));
    StringBuilder sBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    for (int i = 0; i < data.Length  ; i++)
    {
        sBuilder.Append(data[i].ToString("x2"));
    }
    return sBuilder.ToString();
}

I am using Visual Studio 2010

Answer 1

The fastest and easiest way I can think of, off the top of my head, would be to create a Console Application in Visual Studio, and place the function in the main class.

Then in the main function call the above function with appropriate output, something like

void main()
{
   string inputStr = "teststring";
   Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} = {1}", inputStr, getMD5hash(inputStr)));
   inputStr = "anotherstring";
   Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} = {1}", inputStr, getMD5hash(inputStr)));
   Console.ReadKey(); // Pause at the end
}